Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-02-17

enough Of q market to keep the
splendid genius of America employed.
After the most careful investigations
which have been able to make, am
able to say here tonight, without fear
Of contradiction, that il all the manu-
featuring establishments in the United
states were run to their full capacity
for six months in the year, the whole
OF the American demand would be sup
piled, and all the foreign demand pos
slble under the present conditions
what for the other six months of the
year? With the same careful inquiry |
here assert that one half of the fields
that are now titled in the United States
would supply, as have been the de-
mands of the market in the last three
years, all the American demand for
cereals and all the present foreign de-
mand. What for the other half of the
llelds? Shall they remain untitled?
Shall the seed be unsown? Shall the
harvest be ungathered? Shall they be
returned to the primitive period of the
pioneer or surrendered to the under
growth and the forest of the Abor-
igines? What for the mills and fac
tories during the other six months?
The fires will burn out. The machinery
will rust. The capital will be without
interest. The men will suffer. The
women will weep. The children will
starve. Have they starved? Have they
wept? Have they suffered? Mr..
Powderly, President of the Knights of
Labor organization in the Unite,i
States, is reported to have said that
this day there are 100000 men able to
work, and anxious to work, out of EN-
ployment within the United States.-
Why? have suggested it to you in the
facts that have stated. They are out
of employment because the mills are
idle, and the mills are idle because
there is no demand for goods that they
manufacture and produce. Go to them
wherever you may-in Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Wilkesbarre, New York,
and many other places where have
personally been-and you will hear
them tell the same story.
Over and over again, Overproduction,
they say. Oh, Mr.. Protectionist, when
you say that you are an overproduc-
ZIONIST you give your case away. You
admit all that l charge. You confess
all that accuse you of. Overproduc-
tion is only another name for "limited
market" No man overproduces who
has o market large enough to consume
what he makes, and you see that in the
stiffness of your mills and the starva-
ton of your employees you have the
result of overproduction. Market!
Where shall it be? What shall it be?
Can the manufacturer increase his
home market for himself? No! The
very law of protection gives to the
manufacturer the control of the home
market. The law which says to him.
"You shall be protected from the man
ufactories of the world" says to him,
"You shall have no other market than
an American one." They have no
other. They can get no other under
this cruel imposition of duty upon the
production offoreign counties. Do you
doubt what I say? Shall I tell you the
statistics of 1884 from Great Britain as
to the sale of manufactured goods
abroad as compared with our sales?
Let me consider for a moment that
Great Britain and the United States
consume practically the same quantity
of manufactured goods. It is true,
although our population is larger, the
people of the British islands consume
more than we do, because their goods
are cheaper. The consumption of
manufactured goods in each country is
about the same. British manufacturers
supply the American demand. So, far
as tiI6 domestic marker is concerned IN
the quantity of produced goods sold,
each is as the other; but what for the
world? There are more than 200 ,00O,-
600 of people living beyond both of
these countries. What shall the manu-
featuring institutions of these two
countries say to the world? We sold in
1884 of our manufactured goods less
than 10000, 900 worth to the world.
England sold over 81, 100000, 900 worth
to the world. A billion of dollars
worth of goods sold by the people liv-
ing on those little islands, and less than
a sixth as much sold by this great con-
tinent, with all its resources, and pow
ers, and faculties, and facilities for
development. My fellow-citizens. shall
I tell you why? 1t is so easy should
think child might know.
We will take Chill, a specimen State
Of South America, that has millions of
people. They have everything in the
way of production there, natural and
indigenous to their soil and climate
wool, hides, copper ores, and lead ores,
and tallow, and all the products of a
tropical country. They have not gold
and silver enough to make a stable
currency for themselves. They have
the cheapest paper circulating medium,
the value of which they can scarcely
determine from day to day; but they
want the products of the world. They
want the cotton goods which the ladies
of South America like to wear. Where
shall they go to get them? can i'm
agine Chilan merchant loading his
vessel with the products that his own
country has produced to go out upon
the high seas. He brings all the pro-
ducts, and heaps them up in the hold
of the vessel until it is loaded to the
water line, and then is ready to go out
and invite the winds and storms. Out
upon the high seas he goes looking for
an opportunity to exchange. At last it
reaches the port of New York. The
cargo is about to be landed at the dock
in the city of New York, when a GUS
tom-house officer steps up, and says to
him: ~ a@F
II arrest your
"Why, what have I done?"
"You have brought goods from Chilli
to America" .s
II brought them here to exchange
for American goods. You have up here
goods that our peOple want which we